. Journal of the ... Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. P. Wilkin. Since that timethey served in the ministry of the Methodist Church,she organizing missionary societies, working in theW. C. T. U. and Chautauqua Circles, and leaving animpress for good on many boys and girls taught in All her life she was a student, reading many books, especially Shakes-peare and the great English authors. In later years she read much inChautauqua Circles and Mission Courses, many times helping to put lifeinto these movements when they were stagnant. She was well informed oncurrent hi
. Journal of the ... Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. P. Wilkin. Since that timethey served in the ministry of the Methodist Church,she organizing missionary societies, working in theW. C. T. U. and Chautauqua Circles, and leaving animpress for good on many boys and girls taught in All her life she was a student, reading many books, especially Shakes-peare and the great English authors. In later years she read much inChautauqua Circles and Mission Courses, many times helping to put lifeinto these movements when they were stagnant. She was well informed oncurrent history, both in the church and general politics. After almost five years of patient suffering, she passed gently and peace-fully to her reward Tuesday evening, February 24. Funeral services wereheld at Trinity Church, Urbana, 111., on February 26. Dr. A. K. Byrns hadcharge of the services, and the address was given by Dr. T. N. Ewing. Thebody was taken to Chicago for cremation and her ashes rest in the familylot at Olney, 111. 1925 METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 125 MRS. T. Lily Caroline McCoy, youngest child and daugh-ter of Milton D. and Malcina McCoy, was bornone-half mile north of Rochester, on May 9th, was educated in the Rochester Schools. Fromearly childhood she was an earnest Christian andardent worker in the Rochester M. B. Church. On July Sth, 1897, she was married to the lateRev. Thos. B. Wright, who was at that timepastor of the Rochester Methodist Church. To thisunion was born one daughter, Helen Eloise, whoin 1919 was married to R. Rex Good, of Coldwater,Mich. Besides being a true helpmate and faith-ful companion to her husband and a loving motherto her own daughter, she was a true mother toher step-daughter, Mary Wright Pease, wife ofKingsley E. Pease, who in 1903 gave her life to the cause of Christ inSingapore, Malaysia, where she and her husband had gone as missionariesin 1901. Mrs. Wright until her death was an active worker in all churchactiviti
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